Washing-machine



( No Model.)

G. M. BECK. WASHING MACHINE! Patented-Oct. 26,1897.

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WITNESSES THE NORRIS PEIR$ co. PHOTO-LITMDq WASMINDfOm o. c.

NITED STATES GEORGE M. BECK, OF LEBANON, INDIANA.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,229, dated October 26, 1897.

Application filed January 14, 1897. Serial No. 619,180. (No model.)

To all whom) it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. BECK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lebanon, in the county of Boone and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVashing-Machines; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. This invention relates to washing-machines; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the partshereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is alongitudinal section through the washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the washing-machine. Fig. 3 is a detail view of three of the rubberbars. Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line a; m in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section taken on theline, y y in Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a detail side view of one of the brackets I, showing the narrow portion 2" of the rod I in section and in a position to be removed from the bracket.

A is the tub, provided with sides ct, having substantially semicircular bottom portions. The bottom portions have beveled edges 17, which are let into grooves in the longitudinally-corrugated slats O, which form the bottom of the tub. The sides a. have projections c at each end, and d are rods bent to semicircular form and extending under the end portions of the slats O. The upper parts of the rods 61 are passed through holes in the projections c, and D are thumb-nuts screwed on the projecting ends of the rods above the sides. The tub is kept water-tight by tightening up the nuts D. The ends of the slats 0 project beyond the sides a and are provided with notches e for the legs E of the tub to engage with. The legs are attached to the sides of the tub and are rigidly secured against displacement by the notches 6.

F is the drip-board, formed of bars and pivoted by pins f to one end of the tub, and F are brace-rods pivoted to the sides of the dripboard. The rods F are provided with hooked ends f, which engage with holes 9 in washers G, secured. to the tub by two of the said nuts D.

H is the rubber, provided with substantially grooves running to the right and to the left alternately. This feature in connection with the parallel corrugations of the bottom of the tub is found to be very efficient in rubbing the dirt out of the clothes.

' I are brackets secured to the sides of the tub and provided with recessed notches t.

I is a rod provided with narrow portions vi near its ends. This rod is inserted in the notches 1' when the portions 1" are in a vertical position, so that the said narrow portions drop into the recessed notches, and the rod is secured in the notches by partially revolving it. Therod is free to turn in the notches, but it cannot be lifted out of them without first bringing the narrow portions 41' to a vertical position. The rod I has armsj at its ends, and j are downwardly-projecting cranked portions at the free ends of the arms j.

K are pivots which project inwardly from the cranked portions j. The arms j are supported by the sides of the tub when there are no clothes in the ,tub.

L are arms secured to the sides of the rubber and affording a means for operating it.

I. is a handle carried by the arms L.

M are bearing-bushes let into the arms L concentric with thepivots K, and m are antifriction rollers arranged between the said pivots and bushes. The top of the rubber is formed of a plate N, provided with a hinged portion n, permitting access to be had to the interior of the rubber.

N are flanges on the plate N, which form covers for preventing the rollers m from slipping out of the bushes. These flanges are secured to the arms L. The bushes M have sliding out of them in the opposite direction from the cover plates or flanges. The arms j permit the rubber to be raised and hold it -in a proper position in the tub while it is beshoulders m, which prevent the rollers from i narrow portions 1 near its ends, arms j at gage from them when the rubber is lifted out the extreme ends of the rod, downwardlyof the tub, substantially as set forth. 1o bent cranked portions j at the ends of the In testimony whereof I affix my signature arms j, and pivots K projecting inwardly from in presence of two witnesses.

5 the lower ends of the cranked portions j; and GEORGE M. BECK.

a rubber journaled on the said pivots, the \Vitnesses: said rod being revoluble in and extending JOHN L. LEWIS, through the notches i but only free to disen- H. P. NEW. 

